Tour De Somerville

The “Tour’s De” just keep rolling with the Tour De Somerville!

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This Saturday, October 19th,  the Somerville Bicycle Committee holds its
21st annual Tour de Somerville.

This year’s theme is “Over, Under, Around, and Through”, featuring the
city’s many bridges, tunnels, overpasses, and underpasses. We know of at
least 40, which is a lot for a city of just 4 square miles. Our tour route
will cross, or at least pass by, as many of these as possible.

Meet at 10 am at Seven Hills Park, behind the Holland Street MBTA entrance
in Davis Square. We’ll depart promptly at 10:15. The ride will be about 13
miles long, mostly flat, and will end by 1 pm.

Somerville police will help escort the ride. We will have a rest and
refreshment stop about halfway through, at Blessing of the Bay Boathouse on
Shore Drive, with snacks from Redbones.

The tour will visit the sites of two bike path projects now under
construction: the Somerville Community Path extension between Cedar and
Lowell Streets, and the Wellington Undercarriage (a new boardwalk under
Route 28, linking the Mystic River paths at Assembly Square to Shore
Drive).

In case of steady rain, we’ll postpone the ride to Sunday, October 20, same
starting place and time.

A tentative route map is at http://goo.gl/maps/EYBJG . Because the route
passes through many construction projects, it is subject to change, even at
the last minute.
Our Facebook event is at https://www.facebook.com/events/709560142403270 .

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